Lake Studios Berlin

A Dialogue in Motion

15€/10€

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Dr. Dagmar Spain presents her many years of research as an interactive dance performance. On this evening, former dance students will confront the influences and effects of their training and trace their roots within the physical, mental, emotional, and social body. What does their bodily experience mean for others who have not had professional dance training?

Dagmar Spain, together with visual storyteller Dr. Maša Hilćišin, facilitate this event with the dancers Maria Banaszak, Louis Flothman, Karolína Grygarová, Raquel Lanziner, Lynne Scharf & Rozálie Starová. In creative collaboration, all artists immerse themselves in questions about what embodied knowledge means and how we can pass it on. How can this knowledge flow into many areas of life, transform them, and promote lifelong learning with and through the body? Non-professionally trained dancers will also participate in this evening. The event will be accompanied by music from violinist Rodolfo Inokawa. It will conclude with a discussion between the audience and the artists.

BIOS
Dagmar Spain, born in the Czech Republic, is a dance educator, dance researcher and dance artist collaborating with filmmakers, visual artists, and writers at different institutions around the world; recently at Teachers College/ Columbia University, New York, where she gave a lecture in multi-modal research, including dance. She also taught the course “Power of Words” at the University of New York in Prague (UNYP), Czech Republic, teaching the art of monologue writing; and at DanceWorks Berlin, Germany, a BFA dance program, teaching modern/ contemporary dance and implementing the course “Applied Learning” for pre-professional dancers. Spain specializes in interactive, somatic dance movements in conjuncton with theater and literature, and conducts ongoing experiential workshops for all populations to unleash the healing power of embodied expression through a dialogic approach. In the U.S., she taught as a dance artist and visiting professor at Brown, Penn State, and Montclair University. Spain received her BFA in dance at the College for Dance and Performing Arts, Frankfurt, Germany, and her MFA in dance and choreography at Tisch School of the Arts, N.Y.U., New York. She received her EdD in dance education, with a holistic focus on dialogic research & pedagogy from Teachers College/Columbia University in May 2024.

Maša Hilčišin has over 20 years of experience across media, cultural, educational, and human rights sectors, with a focus on creative activism. Her work explores gender-based violence, social taboos, and personal storytelling, using art for healing and empowerment. She has produced documentary films and experimental visual works shown internationally. Alongside her artistic practice, she teaches creative media, film directing, and documentary filmmaking, and leads community-based initiatives. She founded World Community Connect, promoting diversity through collaborative art projects, and has led storytelling workshops for women and girls worldwide. She also co-founded Panta Rhei, a platform for experimental video, music, and performance art.

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